Other Less Likely Causes of Hair Loss

Although we have already stated the many different causes of hair loss from genetics to other environmental causes like pollution to stresses in jobs both physically and mentally. There are however times that these situations are not the cause of hair loss. In this section we are going to explore less likely causes of hair loss which people will often fail to think off until it is too late.

One of the common causes of hair loss that people very rarely diagnose properly is iron deficiency. While it is quite unlikely that people in the industrialized world with a protein and meat rich diet will suffer from iron deficiency in their diet it is certainly something that can happen when a person’s diet isn’t high in meat or iron rich food products. Countries or cultures which do not have meat or iron rich food may be particularly susceptible to this type of hair loss.

Sometimes there might even be a condition in the hair loss patient’s body that causes iron deficiency thus causing the hair loss. Failure in the human body to properly metabolize iron due to either an obstruction in the digestive track lining or even other malabsorbtion syndromes cause by poor health or even drug use can all make the body metabolize iron slowly or even block it from doing so thus causing hair loss.

Sometimes your hair loss can ever be explained by your own metabolism or in this case how you thyroid functions. People who suffer from Hyperthyroidism can present with hair loss along with many other symptoms. Hyperthyroidism is caused by the insufficient production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland.

Other times hair loss can be caused by viruses, diseases or fungal infections that you might have contracted. The two common reasons conditions that will cause hair loss and actually happens quite often to people are:

- Mycotic Infections and;
- Cysts.

In addition to these normally harmless conditions there are also viruses, diseases and fungal infections that are more serious that can cause hair loss. The most distressing of these are the sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis which at their later and very dangerous stages can cause hair loss along with a host of other symptoms.

Some drugs used to treat certain conditions can also cause hair loss. The most obvious of these are chemotherapy drugs which are well documented to cause hair loss. Some other drugs that affect the production and regulation of hormones such as hormone therapy drugs can also cause hair loss. Long term use of testosterone enhancement drugs will also cause hair loss in the long term.